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How Old is *****?

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/University of Colorado Boulder

Oktoberfest, the ******* ***** festival, kicked off this week in Munich. To mark the occasion, Travis Rupp, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Classics, tackles the question: “How old is *****?”

Humans are no strangers to kicking back with a cool pint of *****. The Ancient Egyptians, for example, had a hankering for ***** that was a little bit tart, almost like a modern-day gose, a lemony ***** from Germany. Homer, the Ancient Greek poet, spoke of a beverage called κυκέων (pronounced “kee-kay-own), which was a mixture of grape wine and fermented grains.

But exactly how old is *****? Old, says Rupp. Really, really old.

Deeply Historic Role of *****

Rupp, a.k.a. the “

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,” has arguably one of the tastiest jobs in academia. He travels the world to learn how ancient cultures made *****, then recreates those recipes in a research brewery in his garage. Currently, he’s aging two variations of Homer’s Greek libation, which, Rupp said, are higher in alcohol than traditional beers. 

“When I’m drinking a glass of wine, typically I want to sip on it with my wife,” he said while sipping on a Kiwi Herman New Zealand Lager at 

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 in Boulder, Colorado. “If I’ve got scotch out, I want alone time…But when it’s *****, I want to drink ***** with other people. ***** has been the thing that’s bound us together for a long time.”

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